I received a HOT tip yesterday about the existence of asmcmd. Frankly I'm ashamed that I didn't know about it sooner, since I've been doing an ass-ton of reading about ASM over the past month or so. I'd commit seppuku but I don't have a trusty second available. Instead, I'll...
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Fixing a 32-to-64-bit Migration with utlirp.sql
I plan to write up more about my big migration at work, but I wanted to drop one quick note. I'm using RMAN to duplicate my 32-bit production server to a 64-bit development server (I'll do the same thing for production migration). However, at the very end, RMAN puked this...
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Oracle SQL Developer 1.1.2 released
Oracle has released another version of their SQL Developer tool, chocked full of some nice bug fixes. You might also want to read the release notes.
Oracle Parallel Basics with Doug Burns
Doug Burns has a great video presentation up at the Pythian blog, in which he gives a great explanation of the basics of Oracle's parallel execution feature.It's a great video and it got my head straight on a lot of things (and just created more work for objects that I...
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For Great Justice!
This brought a wry smile to my face. Although Ujang is royally screwed, Mladen still had the presence of mind to set him up the bomb.I hope you know what I'm talking about.